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Recall campaign to remove Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy can proceed: Alaska Supreme Court
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/recall-campaign-to-remove-republican-gov-mike-dunleavy-can-proceed-alaska-supreme-court/Recall campaign to remove Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy can proceed: Alaska Supreme Court
Published 36 mins ago on May 8, 2020By Matthew Chapman
On Friday, the Supreme Court of Alaska ruled that the campaign to recall Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy can appear on the ballot, according to KTOO.
“The state Division of Elections, based on advice from Dunleavy’s attorney general Kevin Clarkson, had initially rejected the campaign’s grounds for recall, saying they were legally insufficient,” said the report. “That ruling was reversed in January by Anchorage Superior Court Judge Eric Aarseth, and the state appealed Aarseth’s decision to the supreme court. The supreme court’s two-page order Friday did not lay out the legal basis for the justices’ decision beyond simply affirming Aarseth’s ruling, saying that a full opinion would follow.
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